On Demand Webinars

Merge ECAD and MCAD Design Data to Build Better Mechatronic Products

More and more products are now integrating electronics into their basic design.  Tighter packaging requirements, repackaging, modular design are often required too. This is happening at an increasing rate in electromechanical products, often grouped under the heading of mechatronics.  New techniques and products can help designers merge their ECAD design data into their 3D mechanical design EARLY in the design to help streamline the overall process.

In this webcast presentation, see different methods and examples of how designers in industry have merged electrical and mechanical design information to create improved overall designs.

DWGSeries Product Line from SolidWorks

This DWGseries product line webcast is geared towards showing AutoCAD® users who work on and collaborate with DWG files the advantages you can receive from these products offered by SolidWorks.

During this webcast you will learn:

• How to read and write any version of DWG from within AutoCAD
• How to view any DWG file received
• How to maintain all your DWG files as you look to a 3D solution

Tips and Tricks for Product Designers

This webcast gives an overview of the time-saving "tips & tricks" for creating SolidWorks® software parts and assemblies specifically for Product Designers.

SolidWorks for Mold Product Design

This webcast is intended for anyone interested in learning how to automate the mold design process using SolidWorks software. SolidWorks provides the solution to create high-value complex molds, shorten lead time, and reduce costly mistakes throughout your mold design process. The objective of this webcast is to introduce you to the features available in SolidWorks® to help you complete typical mold design tasks.

Viewers will learn how to:

• Create parting lines, shut off surfaces, and parting surfaces used to separate the mold cavity from the core
• Analyze your molds using the Draft Analysis tool to examine the faces to ensure sufficient draft and the Undercut Detection tool to locate trapped areas in a model that prevent ejection from the mold
• Extract geometry from the tooling solid to create a core feature, lifters, and trimmed ejector pins
• Analyze plastic parts and their molds based on geometry, material, temperature, and injection gate location to verify that molds will fill in the allowed time, as well as assess the quality of the resulting part and optimize the location of the injection gate.

SolidWorks for the Medical Design Industry

Leadership in the medical equipment market is defined by innovation and rapid new-product introduction. As a result, the time for performing requirements analysis, design, prototyping, and field testing continues to shrink. In addition, regulatory compliance dictates managing and tracking all design documentation. Attend this webcast to find out how SolidWorks® software can help you to address these diverse requirements.

 This webcast will show you how to:

• Rapidly develop and share product concepts
• Create digital prototypes and perform upfront design validation
• Reuse existing design data to create new designs or design alternatives
• Simplify design changes by updating drawings automatically
• Track design changes to support regulatory compliance

SolidWorks for Consumer Product Design

The design and manufacture of consumer products is perhaps the greatest challenge for MCAD. Great products are ones that translate the greatness of the initial concept into a manufactured product. During this webcast you will see how SolidWorks gives you the tools necessary to execute great consumer product design and will learn how to:

• Import industrial design intent into SolidWorks
• Create and control 2D and 3D splines
• Use the primary advanced modeling tools - loft, sweep, fill
• Use hybrid surface – solid modeling to achieve complex shapes
• Understand the primary surfacing utilities - trim, extend, knit
• Use deform and flex to make challenging stylized surfaces easy to accomplish

SolidWorks for Wood, Metal, and Plastic Design

Learn how new tools in SolidWorks 2005 can help engineers and designers create metal, wood, and plastic designs faster and easier.

ECCO & SolidWorks Professional -- More Than Just CAD Design

This archive features Todd Mansfield, a Certified SolidWorks Professional at ECCO (Electronic Controls Co.). ECCO is the world's leading manufacturer of amber warning lights and backup alarm systems for utility vehicles. During this webcast Todd explains how ECCO increases efficiency by using SolidWorks Professional to overcome the full range of issues surrounding the product development process, such as:

• Design
• Documentation
• Manufacturing Instructions
• Information Distribution
• External Communications
• Product Presentations
• Product Data Management

The Devil Is in the Detailing: A Look at 2D Drawings Created with SolidWorks

Learn how SolidWorks 3D modeling software allows you to automate the drawing process by leveraging 3D models and providing tools to quickly detail and clean up a production level drawing.

Maximize your productivity with SolidWorks Solutions Partner products

In this webcast you will learn the benefits of the SolidWorks artner Program and how this program is extending the value of SolidWorks throughout the product development process, as well as how the Partner Program can maximize your productivity. There are also specific examples of best-in-class Partner Program offerings, featuring brief overview demonstrations.

Design Validation Tools for the Medical Design Industry

During this webcast SolidWorks users will receive an overview of the business and design challenges that engineers and designers face in the medical industry and will learn how using design validation tools can help overcome these challenges.

You will learn:

• How SolidWorks Simulation™, design analysis tools offered by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.,  has been helping existing SolidWorks users design and test medical devices
• Why SolidWorks users have chosen to use SolidWorks Simulation as shown through a series of example demonstrations featuring unique product features and case studies
• How SolidWorks Simulation™, easy-to-use design validation and optimization software, and SolidWorks Flow Simulation™, fluid flow analysis, can help designers optimize product designs by using these design validation tools to simulate real-world conditions and test multiple "what if" scenarios

Design for Life - Fatigue Analysis Inside SolidWorks Simulation

Parts and structures subjected to cyclic mechanical and thermal loads will suffer from fatigue. Whether you design engine parts or bridges, the Fatigue module can help you predict how fatigue will affect the overall life of the product, and identify the areas that may be critically damaged.
To make the modeling process faster and easier, you can consider stresses associated with load conditions previously calculated through load cases or time-steps. You may also modify the stored stresses in the standard database or specify your own stresses to create the most realistic model for fatigue analysis.

SolidWorks Simulation and SolidWorks Motion 2007 - Raising the Bar in Mainstream Design Analysis

SolidWorks Simulation raises the bar once again in design analysis with the latest release of its award winning software. SolidWorks Simulation enables designers and engineers to analyze and communicate designs faster and easier than ever before.

SolidWorks Simulation 2007 includes a number of user-driven enhancements that make sophisticated design analysis easy. Find out how new design analysis functionality in SolidWorks Simulation can help build better, safer and more durable products. Learn how the updated user interface helps to do everything from a simple linear analysis to more advanced nonlinear, drop test and fatigue analyses typically found only in complex and expensive analysis software, all without leaving the SolidWorks environment.

SolidWorks Premium now includes SolidWorks Motion.  With SolidWorks Motion, designers can simulate mechanical operations of moving assemblies and the physical forces they generate.

Validating Assembly with SolidWorks Simulation

Simplify your assembly analysis by simulating connectors. Bolts, Pins, Springs, Elastic support, Rigid bars etc., can be included in your SolidWorks Simulation assembly analysis without having to model them.  In this seminar, you will gain understanding on how this can speed up analysis set-up and solution.

5 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Design Analysis

The original design validation solution for SolidWorks is better than ever! Fast, powerful, and accurate design analysis within the same SolidWorks interface you already use every day. Optimize product designs by using SolidWorks analysis tools to simulate real-world conditions and test multiple "what if" scenarios. 

In this seminar, you can gain an understanding of what design analysis is, how it works, and learn about the modeling, meshing and other design analysis capabilities.

Design, Validate, Analyze Using SolidWorks Premium

SolidWorks Premium is a new top-of-the-line design engineering solution that provides all of the capabilities included in SolidWorks Professional, plus the powerful tools offered by SolidWorks Simulation design validation and SolidWorks Routing add-on modules.  Upfront design validation allows designers to make better quality products without the delay and cost of physical prototypes. Part of the SolidWorks Simulation suite of design validation software, SolidWorks Simulation works inside SolidWorks. The add-on performs upfront stress, displacement, and contact analysis on both SolidWorks parts (including thin and sheet metal parts) and assemblies.

This seminar will review the key features of design validation and analysis inside SolidWorks Premium.

FEA For The Rest Of Us

No time to learn Finite Element Analysis (FEA)? Don't think it can help at your company? Not ready to make the leap? Think again! CAD users were specialists 20 years ago too! The bottom line, if you are not using FEA, you will…if you will not, you'll get left behind!

FEA has become a part of the mainstream design process, crossing all industries, geographies, and experience levels. Now more than ever, design engineers and designers need to understand how to take advantage of this technology at a level that works for them without getting overwhelmed. This webcast will review techniques that non-analysts, the rest of us, can use to plan, execute, validate, and interpret FEA-based simulation data to make better and faster design decisions on all types of parts, materials, and manufacturing processes.

Design Analysis 101

Specifically tailored for designers and engineers who are not specialists in design validation, SolidWorks Simulation helps improve product quality by indicating how SolidWorks models will behave before they are built.   Go beyond simple hand calculations by verifying your intuitions and study the real-world performance of different design alternatives without ever leaving the SolidWorks window.

This seminar is designed for SolidWorks users who are unfamiliar with SolidWorks Simulation and would like to learn more about the software's capabilities.

Fix Product Design Flaws Early in the Development Cycle with SolidWorks Simulation Analysis Tools

As a result of putting untested designs straight into prototype or production, some companies are jeopardizing customer relationships or compromising product safety. Or they're simply staying the course with dated products. The premise "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" can also add to costs through the use of excess materials that could be trimmed by judicious streamlining. Saving one-tenth of a penny per unit adds up when you're producing thousands of units. In this seminar you will explore the need for design analysis software, learn the business benefits of using design analysis software, and see examples of how other companies are benefiting from analysis. See a SolidWorks Simulation™ demonstration.

SolidWorks Motion in Action

Fully embedded inside of SolidWorks, SolidWorks Motion is the standard virtual prototyping package for engineers and designers interested in understanding the performance of their SolidWorks models.

With the seamless transfer of loads from SolidWorks Motion to SolidWorks Simulation, you can visualize stress and displacements on a component at a single time instance or for the entire simulation cycle.

CFD in Real Life Designs

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a simulation tool that can be of assistance in solving a number of real world problems. Very often, however, CFD programs are complex and difficult to use, especially by design engineers who have not had great deal of advanced education in the physics of fluid flows. SolidWorks Flow Simulation offers intelligent, easy-to-use CFD to design engineers who use SolidWorks design creation.

This seminar uses heat sinks, a medical suction device, a household oven, and an industrial control valve as examples that illustrate how SolidWorks Flow Simulation can help design engineer users create the best possible product designs when dealing with heat transfer and fluid flow problems.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the Medical Industry

This seminar is designed for medical product design engineers who are considering purchasing a CFD solution for SolidWorks and would like to learn more about the capabilities of SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the medical industry.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation is perfect for the engineer who needs flow analysis, but is not an expert in the field of fluid simulation. Using SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the product development cycle can help you build a better product in less time.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the Electronics Industry

This seminar is designed for electronic engineers who are considering purchasing a CFD solution for SolidWorks and would like to learn more about the capabilities of SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the electronics industry.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation is perfect for the engineer who needs flow analysis, but is not an expert in the field of fluid simulation. Using SolidWorks Flow Simulation in the product development cycle can help you build a better product in less time.

NEW Introduction to 3DVIA Composer

This presentation will show you how to create a number of deliverables from the software in terms of high resolution images, technical illustrations and 3D animations. It will also highlight the process of updating the deliverables when the CAD geometry changes. Finally it looks at the variety of ways that the 3DVIA Composer information can be distributed.

NEW Introduction to SolidWorks Data Management

This presentation will show you how to access, store, change and approve design data more efficiently with SolidWorks data management software. Easy to implement and use, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM helps you manage and share product data and automate workflow to allow better collaboration from engineering to the shop floor, resulting in better products, lower costs, and faster time to market.

NEW Moving from 2D to 3D using SolidWorks

In this webinar learn how you can start designing in 3D by utilizing your existing 2D data and convert it into 3D using SolidWorks design tools. The webinar features:

• Reasons to move to 3D design using SolidWorks
• A full SolidWorks demonstration
• Reasons why you should work with us as your SolidWorks service provider

Introducing SolidWorks 2008

SolidWorks like you have never seen before, with over 250 customer-driven enhancements, SolidWorks 2008 is the biggest and most advanced release yet. Review this webcast to learn about the new functionalities and how SolidWorks can help you design better products. The Webinar features:

• Part design
• Creating a drawing
• Assembly and design change
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Design Analysis
• In-context (Top down design)

SolidWorks Partner Product: SolidMap - Visualize Design Relationships

SolidMap enables you to visualize relationships that are created between SolidWorks features, parts, and files in an interactive block diagram. Visualization of the feature, part, and file interdependencies dramatically reduces the time required to understand how a model is built which, in turn, enables you to much more efficiently design and edit models

Consumer Product Design with SolidWorks

Designers in the consumer products industry faces a unique set of challenges because they must quickly bring new products to market with cutting-edge designs, market-leading functionality, and competitive manufacturing costs. One of the most critical demands is managing the transition from design to engineering.